The elephant should be wary of the mercury content of crushed Asians, though. Too much gorging on those and it might affect its mental health.
No, sadly some of the warlords in various African countries regularly slaughter elephants to feed their troops.
He was hungry, and the guy was all mushy ?
Seriously, while apparently normal elephants don’t eat people, it’s not that odd for herbivores to eat meat, given the chance. It’s just that they usually don’t get a chance at meat they can handle, without the means to hunt and the teeth to tear. Deer have been known to slurp down small, fish stranded by a flash flood, or eat cubes of meat left out by people for them.
Also, from the article :
Actually, elephant interest in alcohol is older than contact with humans, apparently; they’ll go long distances to get at fermenting fruit. They just like alcohol.
There was a movie about this - Elephant Wok
In my nice little thread… :rolleyes:
Hey, you started it !
<— bursts into song…
" Ebony and Ivory, stompin’ up some tasty man entrée … "
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Why don’t the bartenders simply cut them off?
Have you ever tried to tell an angry drunk elephant that he’s had enough? Let alone try to get his keys away from him.
People may see happy pink elephants when they’re drunk, but apparently elephants see tasty human shaped trees.
I think the obvious answer to this is they need to hire some mice to protect the village.
Did anybody else read this …
… and think, “The front fell off.”?
I have a hard time believing this. I’ve never ever heard of an elephant eating someone. :dubious:
I’m wondering whether the elephant stomped the man to death, as elephants are wont to do occasionally, and then some other animal came along and ate him. The story did not say anyone saw the elephant eating him. Some official “confirms” it happened, but what does that mean? Someone told him?
Sadly, I’ve heard of this happening. Not often, fortunately, so I can only assume it was done for the novelty of it and that elephant is not all that tasy. Probably tough as hell.
“She’s a man-eater!
Watch out, boys, she’ll chew you up.”
Do you guys remember the chicken-eating cow?
From the article:
That headline is missing something. Shoulda been Enraged elephant turns maneater: Body found in a trunk.
Jumbo Lecter, therapy elephant for Wringling Brothers Circus, fled to the Alabama Elephant Sanctuary, where the tusks are looser.
Dammit, I thought I could go somewhere with this…
The elephant was last seen trying to get into the pajamas of Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding, the African explorer.
How an elephant will come up with the next line in this gig, I’ll never know.
It’s entirely irrelephant anyway.
And this is obviously a ploy.